North Korea to target U.S. with nuclear, rocket tests

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Thursday it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the United States, dramatically stepping up its threats against a country it called its "sworn enemy". The announcement by...

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Russia's Putin says regional revolts led to Algeria hostage

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that revolts in Syria and Libya had unleashed instability in the Middle East and Africa that had exacted a "tragic toll" in last week's militant attack on a gas plant in Algeria. Putin...

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Israeli voters force Netanyahu to seek centrist partner

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's next government must heed voters and devote itself to bread-and-butter issues, not thorny foreign policy problems such as Iran's nuclear plans and the Palestinian conflict, senior politicians said on Thursday. Israelis...

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UK urges Britons to leave Libya's Benghazi over threat

TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) - Britain urged its nationals to leave the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, citing a "specific and imminent" threat to Westerners days after a deadly attack by Islamist militants in neighboring Algeria. Britain's...

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France sees no sign Syria's Assad will be toppled soon

PARIS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - France said on Thursday there were no signs that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is about to be overthrown, something Paris has been saying for months was just over the horizon. The uprising against Assad's rule is now almost...

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Mali Islamists suffer split as Africans prepare assault

MARKALA, Mali/DAKAR (Reuters) - A split emerged on Thursday in the alliance of Islamist militant groups occupying northern Mali as French and African troops prepared a major ground offensive aimed at driving al Qaeda and its allies from their safe haven...

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Israel expected to boycott U.N. rights scrutiny session - U.S

GENEVA (Reuters) - Israel is expected to boycott the U.N. Human Rights Council next week despite the United States urging its ally to show up for an examination of its record, the U.S. ambassador said on Thursday. The Jewish state is scheduled to be...

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Turkish court convicts sociologist over 1998 blast: media

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Turkish court sentenced a sociologist on Thursday to life in prison for involvement in a deadly 1998 explosion after three previous acquittals, media reports said, in a case which has raised concerns about judicial process in Turkey....

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Greek subway workers told: end strike or face arrest

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's government ordered striking transport staff back to work on Thursday, threatening them with arrest if they refuse to end an eight-day walkout that has paralyzed the Athens subway. Workers said they would defy the order, issued...

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China busts sex video blackmailers who targeted officials

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police in the inland port city of Chongqing have busted a ring that extorted local officials with secretly-filmed video of their encounters with young women, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Thursday. Late last year,...

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Japan's Abe in Thailand to talk economic ties, security

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Thailand on Thursday, part of a three-country Southeast Asian tour to consolidate business ties in one of the world's fastest-growing regions and counter growing Chinese assertiveness. Tension...

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Kazakhstan may join WTO this year: WTO chief Lamy

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kazakhstan may join the World Trade Organisation this year, WTO director general Pascal Lamy said on Thursday. "Kazakhstan is at an advanced stage of its accession negotiation. My guess is that this could be doable this year," he...

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Pakistan warns anti-government cleric to end protest

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior minister on Wednesday warned an anti-government Muslim cleric and thousands of protesters camped out near parliament to disperse, saying they were at risk of attack by militants. Rehman Malik said authorities...

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France launches ground campaign against Mali rebels

BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) - French troops launched their first ground assault against Islamist rebels in Mali on Wednesday in a broadening of their operation against battle-hardened al Qaeda-linked fighters who have resisted six days of air strikes. France...

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Floods paralyze Indonesian capital, heavy rains continue

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rain triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday, bringing the city to a halt with many government offices and businesses forced to close because staff could not get to...

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London station briefly evacuated after train fire

LONDON (Reuters) - London's Victoria Station was briefly evacuated during the Thursday rush hour after a fire under a train that was pulling up to a platform, British transport police said. There were no casualties, a spokesman said, adding the station...

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Suu Kyi's party accepts crony donations in reform-era Myanmar

YANGON (Reuters) - Cronies of Myanmar's military junta which kept democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for nearly two decades have reached a milestone in their quest to rehabilitate their image: they're now donors to Suu Kyi's political...

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Firebrand cleric raises fear of "soft coup" in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - To Pakistan's ruling party, a firebrand cleric camped outside parliament with thousands of protesters is looking more and more like the harbinger of their worst fear: a plan by the military to engineer a "soft coup". In their eyes,...

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Massacre of over 100 reported in Syria's Homs

BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 100 people were shot, stabbed or possibly burned to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group said on Thursday, and fierce fighting raged across the country. The British-based Syrian Observatory...

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Algerian forces launch operation to break desert siege

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Twenty-five foreign hostages escaped and six were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces launched an operation to free them at a remote desert gas plant, Algerian sources said, as one of the biggest international hostage crises in...

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UK policewoman guilty of misconduct over call to Murdoch tabloid

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior British counter-terrorism police officer was found guilty on Thursday of misconduct in public office over a call to the News of the World to discuss an investigation into phone-hacking by its reporters. April Casburn, 53,...

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Venezuela's sick Chavez misses own inauguration bash

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stayed on his sickbed in Cuba on Thursday while supporters rallied in his honor on the day he should have been sworn in for a new six-year term in the South American OPEC nation. The postponement...

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Two separate bombs kill 32, hurt 100 in Pakistan cities

QUETTA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Bomb blasts in two Pakistani cities killed 32 people and injured more than 100, police and hospital officials said. A bomb in Quetta, the capital of the eastern province of Balochistan, killed 11 people and injured...

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Syria overshadows Iran charm offensive in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - Shi'ite Iran, increasingly isolated over its nuclear programme, tried to improve ties with Egypt on Thursday, playing down differences over Syria and seeking to reduce sectarian tensions by courting the country's top Sunni scholar....

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